Tickets for this play, directed by Gerard Vázquez at the Tenerife Auditorium’s theatre space, are sold out.
The Auditorio de Tenerife is staging three performances of El enterrador (The Undertaker) at La Salita this weekend. Tickets are already sold out. The play by Teatre de Dos, starring Pepe Zapata and directed by Gerard Vázquez, will be performed on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th at 7.30 pm, and on Sunday 19th at 12 noon. The first performance on Friday will be followed by a discussion moderated by students from the Canary Islands School of Acting, with which the Auditorio de Tenerife has a collaboration agreement.
In El enterrador, an actor prepares the monologue he has written based on what his family—born in the same village as the character he plays—told him over the years about him and his grandfather. Today, he has come to the theatre hours before the scheduled rehearsal to rehearse alone and run through the play. The character he plays must bury, as he does every day, the bodies of those who have been shot and brought to the cemetery.
Among the bodies that day, he recognises a friend, also a fellow villager, whom he believed to have died at the front. He confides in him, explaining his situation and what he is doing—risking his life—to help the relatives of those shot locate the place where he has buried them so they can identify them.
The rehearsal is interrupted several times by phone calls from the director and calls to his mother. Due to her deteriorating memory, she recounts details that differ from what he thought he knew about his grandfather and the gravedigger’s dead friend. This version makes him doubt the real truth about them.
The next show at La Salita is the play Las pequeñas mudanzas, (Small removals) a contemporary adaptation of Tirso de Molina’s Don Gil de las calzas verdes, directed by Vanessa Espín, which will take place on 1, 2 and 3 May. Tickets, priced at €8, can be purchased on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the box office from Monday to Friday between 10:00 and 17:00 and on Saturdays from 10:00 to 14:00, or by telephone on 902 317 327 during the same hours.